The Next Rodeo: New & Selected Essays - Softcover

"You may never again see the American West in quite the same way if you take the time to view it through the eyes of William Kittredge." --The Seattle Times "Reading this richly detailed book is like listening to Hank Williams. Its twangy, melancholic strains cut to the bone." --Booklist (starred review), on Owning It All

An intimate discussion of the landscape of the American West and the challenges of ownership, environmental crises, and greed. Kittredge describes his contradictory relationship to the spare and often unforgiving western landscape through these luminous essays that move from the personal to the political. Kittredge is intimately connected with the West through his family's Oregon cattle ranch, and he has watched his region decline for many decades now. These essays directly address environmental concerns, and the problematic mythologies of the western experience.